wendigo

FREQ #45978

温迪哥

发音

UK /ˈwɛndɪɡəʊ/
其它
US /ˈwɛndiɡoʊ/

词形变化

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别名

witiko weendigo wiindigoo windago windiga windigo witigo wihtikow

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.

    温迪哥

    宗教 神话 哲学
  2. 2.

    Synonym of splake (“kind of hybrid fish”).

相关短语

wendigo psychosis

词源

Borrowed from Ojibwe wiindigoo, from Proto-Algonquian *wi·nteko·wa (“owl; malevolent spirit, cannibalistic monster”). Compare Plains Cree wîhtikow, ᐃᐧᐦᑎᑯᐤ (“greedy person; cannibal; giant man-eating monster”).

来源：wiktionary